Policing and the Politics of Order-Making

Book Overview

This anthology explores the political nature of making order through policing activities across Africa, Asia and Latin America. What these contexts have in common is a plurality of order-making practices. Not one institution monopolizes the means of violence or a de facto sovereign position to do so. A number of interests are played out simultaneously, entailing re-negotiations over the very definition of what 'order' is. Policing and the Politics of Order-Making explores how the enactment and contestation of order-making can be a route to power and thus inherently political.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138211222
• ISBN13: 9781138211223
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"